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" Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. "
Robert T. Bakker
Everywhere
Land
Extinction
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" In 1941 Richard Owen said that the dinosaurs were almost hot blooded. "
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" Fossils have richer stories to tell - about the lub-dub of dinosaur life - than we have been willing to listen to. "
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" I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool. "
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" Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but not many sea faring ones. "
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" One researcher just determined that African and Indian elephants make each other sick. When a new animal or plant is introduced to a habitat bad things happen. The biggest danger to native wildlife is foreign wildlife. "
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" Stegosaurus was common only on well drained, dry soil. "
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" To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also. "
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Seems
Me
" Since then I have held many jobs at museums in Colorado and Wyoming. I have also taught summer courses at the University of Colorado. "
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Summer
University
Colorado
" The evidence is overwhelming that birds are dinosaurs. "
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" At Harvard I was in charge of the comparative anatomy labs. "
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Charge
Harvard
Comparative
" One of my major goals is to develop a web of the small Wyoming museums and create a major museum system. There are about eight of these museums, and they are all scattered. "
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Museums
Museum
Goals
" I also discovered the only complete Brontosaurus skull. "
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Discovered
Only
Also
" I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest. "
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Museum
New
New York
" It was not an asteroid or comet, because it would have killed everything. "
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Everything
Comet
Asteroid
" I want to be the Bob DeNiro of the Jurassic. "
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Bob
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" When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks. "
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See
Evidence
Looking
" Birds evolved from a small raptor like theropod. "
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Small
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" The impact of the magazine was very strong. As I said, it portrayed dinosaurs as part of the geological history, part of the story of life on earth. It struck that paleontology was the career for me. "
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Me
Strong
Story
" Feathers predate birds. "
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Birds
Feathers